Read the section below from Astoria by Washington Irving and answer the question that follows.
"This region, which resembles one of the ancient steppes of Asia has not inaptly been termed 'the great American desert.' It spreads forth into undulating and treeless plains, and desolate sandy wastes, wearisome to the eye from their extent and monotony, . . . It is a land where no man permanently abides; for, in certain seasons of the year there is no food either for the hunter or his steed.”
– Washington Irving, Astoria, 1836

In the above excerpt, Washington Irving expresses an opinion about the Great Plains. Which phrase does not show Irving's bias against the Great Plains?
A.
“has not been inaptly termed ‘the great American desert’”
B.
“wearisome to the eye”
C.
“resembles one of the ancient steppes of Asia”
D.
“desolate sandy wastes”

Read this passage.my career in journalism has taught me the challenges of capturing sporting events, yet gregor powell's descriptions are flawless. powell is a gold-medal paralympic swimmer, but his memoir proves that his true strength is the power of his insights.what feature distinguishes this passage as a foreword?

Awell-written summary should be used o in place of reading an original text to you review something that you have already read

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion